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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, February 25, 2010
RamBLing from 25
er Reports’ main thread of issue of Consumer Re-
soweLL from 8
leading. They are well on
shared some but not all advice was to “take your ports for over two months what A pays B is any busi- their way to becoming
of the correspondence I’ve complaint to the top.” I’m and I’m owed my Febru- ness of C is an assumption public masters-- like apt-
generated in pursuit of sure it’s not lost on my ary and March issues! that means a dangerous ly named White House
my goal. readers that that’s what Whether my gift recipi- power being transferred “czars.” The more they can
When I concluded that I’d been trying to do when ents are receiving their to politicians to tell us all get us all to resent those
the magazine’s subscrip- the woman in Customer issues, I’ll have to check. what incomes we can and they designate, the more
tion department was hope- Relations threatened me! One of those lucky people cannot receive. It will not they can distract us from
less, I began complaining So, reinspired by Con- hasn’t spoken to me about apply to everyone all at their increasing control of
to Consumer Reports’ cor- sumer Reports own advice anything since their gift once. Like the income tax, our own lives-- but only if
porate office in Yonkers, I called the corporate of- subscription should have which at first applied only we sell our freedom cheap.
New York. When I tried to fice again. This time I ex- been renewed! What a to the truly rich, and then We can sell our birthright
have a conversation with plained my frustration to pain. And so it goes. His- slowly but steadily moved and not even get the mess
one of the Customer Rela- the telephone receptionist tory rambles on, and so down the income scale of pottage.
tions people who wrote me and asked to be connect- too will we be Rambling to hit the rest of us, the
back, she sharply told me ed to “whoever signs the Through History in two power to say what incomes Thomas Sowell is a senior
not to talk to her about my paycheck of the woman more weeks. Malzy, Dia- people can be allowed to fellow at the Hoover Institu-
subscription issues any who had threatened me.” blo and I hope that you’ll make will inevitably move tion, Stanford University,
more and to instead call The telephone reception- join us then! down the income scale to Stanford, CA 94305. His
the subscription depart- ist seemed sympathetic make us all dependents Web site is www.tsowell.
ment. She said if I called and connected me to an Note: The author, Mal and supplicants of politi- com.
again she would consider executive’s voice mail. Fuller, hopes to recover cians.
my call harassment (or I left a detailed mes- his health sufficiently to The phrase “public ser-
words to that effect). sage about my on-going once again be available to vants” is increasingly mis-
Looking for inspiration, I problem with Consum- provide the electrical resto-
Googled something about er Reports. A Darlene ration of your vintage tube-
methods of complaint and S. returned my call be- type radio. Mal’s phone maLkin from 7 society by tying together
wound up with a page of cause her boss was “out of number is (603) 569-1946. the haters from immedi- the Alabama massacre
advice on lodging com- town.” She has professed Mal’s E-mail address is: ately smearing advocates and the rise of the Tea
plaints authored by (are to be helpful ever since,
radiodoc@localnet.com. of limited government. Party movement more
you ready for this?) Con- but it’s now mid-March And it’s just the latest in explicitly. Proof of anti-
sumer Reports! Consum- and I’ve not received an a long line of calculated Obama bigotry, he wrote,
attempts to paint the vast could be found in “last
majority of peaceful Tea week’s shooting in Ala-
Party activists as terrorist bama, where a disgruntled
threats to civil society. white professor murdered
This week, absurd liberal three minority professors;
pundits and bloggers also and the growing success of
tried to connect the tragic the Tea Party movement,
University of Alabama- which is overwhelmingly
Huntsville murders to the white and increasing (sic)
Tea Party movement. No vocal in its violent dislike
matter that the alleged of the nation’s first black
killer, Amy Bishop, was president.”
an Obama-worshiping The same warped world-
academic who repeatedly view blamed Tea Party
got a soft-on-crime pass. conservatives for Kentucky
Or that Democratic Rep. census worker Bill Spark-
William Delahunt of Mas- man’s insurance-scam-
sachusetts was the for- inspired suicide and for
mer prosecutor involved in Holocaust Museum shoot-
dropping charges against er James Von Brunn’s
Bishop in the deadly shoot- rampage (despite his pub-
ing of her teenage brother. lished rants against Fox
Or that liberal-dominated News).
campus officials appar- The smear merchants,
ently looked the other way of course, are simply fol-
in response to Bishop’s lowing Rahm Emanuel’s
several red-flag flashes of advice to exploit every cri-
violence leading up to the sis. Pointing fingers at the
U of A shootings. Tea Party gremlin demon-
Tea Party-bashers izes the left’s most potent
claimed that the mur- political opponents. This
ders were a manifesta- is the blame-gamers’ ul-
tion of racist conservative timate agenda: criminal-
influence on the Ameri- izing dissent.
can landscape. Reuters
Foundation Fellow Jona- Michelle Malkin is the au-
than Curiel picked up the thor of “Culture of Corrup-
theme: “The ‘results’ that tion: Obama and his Team
the Tea Party movement of Tax Cheats, Crooks &
envisions include less gov- Cronies” (Regnery 2010).
ernment -- and less of Her e-mail address is mal-
Obama.”
kinblog@gmail.com.
Curiel bemoaned the
rejection of a post-racial
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